Tag: urban farming
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Opinion: How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in U.S. Cities
See the realities and potential solutions for producing more food in cities.
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What If Every Lawn was Transformed into an Edible Garden?
In many countries today, well-maintained, closely cut, green lawns seem to be almost everywhere. In fact, lawns are the single largest crop in the U.S., covering 32 million acres. But what if we grew edible gardens, not lawns? We’ve got about 16 million acres in the United States now growing all of our fruits and…
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How Guerrilla Gardeners are Changing the World
I remember the day my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Burkett, told my class about Johnny Appleseed. I couldn’t relate to him, at all. I tried to imagine actually meeting a real person who wore a cooking pot on his head like a hat and scattered apple tree seeds everywhere he went. I remember thinking, “If I’d…
